On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM, larry price <lapr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a nice intro to gnome-open which is what you would want to use on > ubuntu > http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/16/gnome-open-open-anything-from-the-command-line/ > > in OS X you would use open > Not quite what I was hoping for since it apparently offers no choice dialog. By way of further background, I'm working with Lua embedded in an outliner, NoteCase Pro, which has builds for about 55 different platforms. The app includes APIs for scripting the export of documents and an API that returns the path of the document last exported to. The latter API makes it feasible to script actions upon the exported file post-export. I'm hoping for a method that would allow the user to choose the program to open the exported file in. E.g., if export type is HTML, enable the user to choose between opening it in their choice among different browsers or their choice of a plain text editor or other HTML editor. All without knowing in advance what the choice would be, paths to executables, etc. The Windows command line in my first post handles the situation nicely. That leaves only 53 or so supported platforms to go. :-) I'm thinking at the moment that the way forward might be to modify the outliner so that the user can map the apps to use with various export file types and create an API that returns the desired mapping. It's a bit touchy because the HTML is exported with UTF-8 set as the character encoding, so editing the HTML with a text editor that doesn't properly support UTF-8 is problematic. Going the mapping route, we could pop up a warning while the user is seting the mapping that the text editor must be set to support UTF-8 encoding. That's something we can't do with the Windows dialog. So this might be even better. Thanks for the assist. Best regards, Paul _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
